Wrong War - First Shot Misses

    

  Wrong War (https://www.facebook.com/wrongwarmusic) are Dan Smith (drums), Dave Pawlowski (bass), Matthias Weeks (vocals) and Patrick Keenan (guitar). They formed in 2019, hail from Chicago and are former members of bands such as Current, Ottawa, Calvary, The Phenoms and Salvo Beta. They play "blistering political punk rock" and have garnered comparisons with the likes of Crucifix, Battalion Of Saints and Born Against. 

  And they've recently released a debut album titled Fixed Against Forever. It contains 9 tracks, the music is mostly fast and heavy (there's a bit of d beat sound bubbling not too far below the surface which compliments those US hardcore influences) and the lyrics are well written and are more thought provoking and abstract than most bands manage. For example we get lines like "Day spent in bright-lit city, With sounds of market-tongues...", "A pyrrhic victory, calling over the din, The lonely moan, of the next battlefield..." and "When it’s all fools -- and firebrands, Glorifying -- a promised land, They’ll kindly tell you -- where to stand. Ever closer to hell."

  The album's available on vocalist Matt's Council Records label :  https://wrongwar.bandcamp.com/album/fixed-against-forever 

  This is the track I played on a recent Just Some Punk Songs show which impressed the chatroom regulars, it's called First Shot Misses...

It’s what they would write... You know what will happen. Fixed, altered, in every way. An assertion profession, And the indifference of your adversaries. There’s a time, When they will win. There's not an answer, To every question. First shot misses. Ride out the day, Consider it a warning. Few notes that you bray In violence we’re drowning. There is a time, When they will win. There's not an answer, To every question. First shot misses. You know what we’re trapped in, Exit obscured and out of sight. As it all wears thin, remember… This is what they would write! You know what will happen. Fixed, altered, in every way. An assertion profession, And the indifference of your adversaries. So what are we waiting for?